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I think the point is that you still get to choose when to speak. Self-editing is likely the most important of messageboard-use skills. This thread should not be about board etiquette, so I'm going with some official points in red text to stave off argument. Nobody is entitled to having...

If you look around, I think you'll find that significant swaths of the public have had their credulity dial turned to 11 these days. Our collective appetite for egregious but comforting or emotionally satisfying lies is vast, and we swallow them like frogs swallow flies - without chewing them...

But then, why bother having her suspended for the story if it doesn't keep her from engaging? There's nothing specific about the suspension that we cannot do without for her character building. It isn't like they restrict folks from working outside their expertise - with M'Benga doing work in...

Heaven's knows my wife and I are doing a lot of re-watching of older shows these days.

I'm aware. I'm just speaking to why they don't do her development while she's suspended.

She's not in action while suspended. In the past, with 20+ episode seasons, maybe they'd give us one that's really quiet, and not much happens, such that we could explore her at rest, so to speak. But with short seasons, each episode needs to be major stuff happening, which she's not supposed...

I ran years of Classic Deadlands - which uses playing cards AND dice. I'm about to run Savage Worlds, same. I don't seem to have an issue with cards.

People with PTSD don't necessarily have an issue every day, or every time they are stressed. It isn't that predictable for most who suffer. The real error here is that the Federation doesn't recognize the problems of PTSD in their officers, even when we already know about it now.

I don't think we know the Stardate for the episode. There can be a significant gap between episodes, with the suspension passing in the background. We aren't going to see development of the character if the character is suspended, sitting on her hands in her quarters.

Mod Note: For whatever reason, you seem to having some trouble with making this stick. You keep saying you are going to disengage, but then you reply again. How about we end this. If you cannot disengage, we can disengage you. You're done in this discussion.

Mod note: Yep. And it is also politics. And, while I largely agree with you, that is about as far as these thread can go. Thread closed.

I don't have an issue with Fudge dice. But I otherwise don't own any RPGs that require custom dice to play. Which means I am probably mildly turned off by them.

Yes, but they were also still 7000 people. A goodly sized town, all at once. Kirk was having the most common moral quandary in heroic fiction - when you fight monsters, you must be careful to not become a monster yourself. The fastest road to heck is to say, "Well, they were bad people, and...

I seem to have to repeat myself. The solar wind will take the thing down before the atmosphere at those densities. With respect, Paul, that seems like your idiosyncratic usage. To NASA: Low Earth Orbit = orbital period of 128 minutes or less (and eccentricity under 0.25). This is basically...

I imagine it was a quick way to get algorithms to show company content a little more often, is all. If it is saying much about D&D, it is that it is also a pop-culture icon, and welcomes all types. The question is if it was cost-effective. And it was pretty much free. Honestly, when you...

Citation on that, please? Thanks much. While you get that, we can also remember it... ... was #2 in Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending July 29, 2022" in hardcover nonfiction. ... was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in March 2023. ...was nominated for...

Oblique? It seemed very direct. I believe this was noted early in the thread - from a marketing perspective, it is a search optimization and algorithmic manipulation thing. Find an excuse to reference big Taylor Swift news, and you can get a boost in views, even on unrelated social media posts.

Nobody has used that explicit phrase within this thread, no. But I didn't make it up. It is in other social media a lot the past few days, though it has been around for quite a while now. As for what is happening here, at least one person in this thread is insisting that this is about more...

And, maybe consider that what you are saying, in a broader context, may have negative impacts on others, even if that's not your conscious intent. Being part of a community - or perhaps more properly, being a good citizen of a community - should include having some empathy for members of the...

Especially when the first eyeglasses came around in the late 13th century (so, 1268-1330, in Italy, to be more precise) - they predate plate armor!